[Shotimes] Re: 300 hp

Midwest SHO Specialists SHOtimes@midwestsho.com
Tue, 5 Aug 2003 09:05:16 -0500


FWIW, Isn't that "rumor" still on the SHO Times site?

Mike Kopstain
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net>
To: "'dean james'" <djshov8@hotmail.com>; <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 11:37 PM
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Re: 300 hp


> No. No proof ever came out, other than it being a rumor from 14 years ago.
>
> A Yamaha engine was going to go into Ford's 2-seater Corvette fighter that
> never saw the light of day, then someone came up with the idea to satisfy
> the Yamaha contract by putting a motor into the Taurus. Could have been
that
> before the SHO project that there was going to be something more
substantial
> for a 2-seat sportscar, but then the 300 HP rumor never said the motor was
> n/a, either.
>
> The rumor went away at least 10 years ago, but I guess that newer SHO
folks
> just pick up the BS from somewhere.
>
> Ron Porter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of dean james
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 12:10 AM
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Re: 300 hp
>
>
> Of course everything you said is correct, but it is going beyond the
> original subject.  That subject being was there ever a 300HP yamahammer?
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